Games Magazine

Pros: Great puzzles and interesting articles
Cons: A bit expensive

I've been enjoying Games Magazine for about 20 years, and it's still one of my favourites. Games Magazine is such a pleasure because it covers a variety of gaming topics.

The fun starts with the front page. It's always a visual puzzle, not too...

Pros: part glossy (if you like that), visual puzzles (although less than in the past)
Cons: some quality control issues, inconsistent target audience, many puzzles tedious, mostly word and visual puzzles

I never liked Games Magazine very much, but I decided to give it another try after a several year break when I discovered it had been purchased by Kappa Magazines. I've enjoyed several Kappa puzzle magazines and figured that their oversight might improve ...

Pros: Challenging! Great Variety! An entertaining read; very few ads!
Cons: Can be a challenge to beginners; not just "pencil puzzles" if that's what you're looking for!

Games Magazine is exactly what you'd expect to see in a publication of that title, GAMES from cover to cover. I used to subscribe to this magazine years ago. After a while, I had a change of sorts, and found I preferred a publication devoted solely to...

Pros: Variety, reviews
Cons: Simplistic puzzles, not enough bang for my buck

With all of the other puzzle books out there, I find that “GAMES” just does not measure up. I prefer Dell Puzzle Books for both quality and price.

At $ 3.50 per issue, GAMES is a smaller magazine than most of the other puzzle books I buy....

Pros: Variety of puzzles and skill levels, well written and edited, entertaining
Cons: Only published bi-monthly

A fresh new Games, an erasable pen, some peace and quiet,
and I am in blissful heaven. Since April 1977 I have been
subscribed to Games, except the unfortunate hiatus in the
80's when Games Magazine was out of business. I was 11 years
...

Pros: variety of puzzles, good reviews
Cons: only 6 issues/year

I discovered Games magazine in its earlier incarnation (in the mid-1980s) when I was in college. Several of us would get together and work on our copies when they arrived, inevitably in the middle of exam weeks. We would see how many people we would...

Pros: Varied, colorful, good way to relax.
Cons: Some of those puzzles are REALLY hard!!

How do I love this magazine, let me count the ways. Seriously though, this magazine is overflowing with puzzles, mind-teasers, stories, game advice, trivia and much much more. Although this may sound like a plug for GAMES I fully believe that these are...

Pros: Covers absolutely everything to do with games
Cons: none

I have been reading Games magazine ever since the very first one was published over 20 years ago. As far as I can tell (and I have looked VERY hard) there are no other puzzle/game magazines out there like this one. As such, for me, Games is the...

Pros: Varied puzzles and reviews and articles
Cons: perhaps too many crosswords

When I was little I'd get mom's copy and do the puzzles she didnt like...she's a crossword puzzler and as a little one, these were beyond me...as I grew I started going through old copies that were around the house and doing the crosswords that had been...

Pros: Good mix of challenging word, trivia, visual games and puzzles
Cons: Fairly expensive and many puzzles are difficult

Games magazine touts itself as a magazine, "for puzzle lovers." And filled with puzzles it is. In each issue you'll find standard crossword puzzles and unique variations of crossword puzzles. Sometimes these are multiple step puzzles, where the...

Pros: packed from cover to cover
Cons: none

Games. Simple enough name for a magazine, and this one delivers. The front cover is always some sort of game - Can you spot this? A maze? It varies. The game on the cover is always fun. Not bad considering you haven't even opened the magazine yet!
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Pros: Great puzzles and regular features.
Cons: Skimpy for $3.50

I got my first issue of Games magazine (and soon a subscription) around 1979. The magazine, owned at the time by Hugh Hefner and Playboy, was a wonderful combination of pencil puzzles (created by some of the best in the business), visual games (via...

Pros: the challenge
Cons: nothing

If there's one thing I love to do on my days off, or when I'm just trying to get to sleep at night, it's rack my brain with a good puzzle. Call me crazy or whatever you want, but that's what I do.

About a year ago I found the perfect magazine...

Pros: Everything!
Cons: Nuttin

Picture it...New Jersey. 1980's. A young woman picks up a magazine called "Games". She is an intelligent woman, and yearns for a magazine to challenge her grey matter. Bringing the magazine home, she grabs a Pepsi, and a pen (pencils are...

Pros: Puzzles that almost everyone can enjoy.
Cons: Not for the completely brain dead.

I have been a subscriber to GAMES since I picked up an old copy of the magazine in 1985 and started doing the puzzles. Although this magazine has been through a lot of changes in the fourteen or so years between then and now, the basic premise has not...